The Skeleton's Holiday: Leonora Garrington

`Ring for your maid, and when she comes in we`ll pounce upon her and tear off her face. I`ll wear her face tonight instead of mine.`
These dreamlike, carnivalesque fables by one of the leading lights of the Surrealist movement are masterpieces of invention and grand-guignol humour.
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